Rapid League Awards
As a tradition, we are ready to present the player awards for EHL S2 Rapid League!
In this tournament, we decided to update the approach to individual statistics, introducing new data counting (interceptions and tackles, dribbling and passing success, number of mistakes and chances created), as well as an overall rating based on this data. You can see what it turned out in the general table with player statistics.
The first part of the results of Rapid League is here.
Previous tourney awards are here.
Best Goalkeeper
The Oscars player again becomes the best goalkeeper of the tournament, but this time Howl takes the award. Kirill was pulled out of a prolonged vacation due to DeadMouse's transfer to the Ice Creamers, and for good reason. Howl showed a high percentage of goals saved to goals conceded throughout the tournament and did not lose courage in the decisive game of the championship, having won a goalkeeper duel against Vitya, thanks to his performance at their head to head, he won gold in this nomination. Congratulations to Kirill and wish him the same worthy end to the season!
As we mentioned earlier, DeadMouse decided to change his club, and who knows if this was the reason that for the first time in many years he dropped below the first place in the nomination. In any case, thanks in large part to Vitya, Ice Creamers reached a streak of 12 wins in a row, with a rather low number of goals conceded. We wish DeadM to return to the first line, but for now, congratulations on the silver!
It would seem that Pizza Kings frankly played poorly in the tournament, losing all games and scoring only to The Bandits and Lemons. But in their camp was, no matter how unexpected it may sound, one of the best goalkeepers in the league. Marci managed to catch more than 10 shots per game and almost got to a positive percentage of saves, which is surprising given the level of the team. Congratulations to Marci on the bronze and leaving behind several established goalkeepers.
Worth mentioning: Federico (Unity), W (Lemons).
Federico, after the second place in the Champions Cup nomination, was unable to gain a foothold even in the top three. Perhaps this is due to the move to Unity. In any case, he obtained 48% of saves and helped his team climb onto the podium, but with a personal podium he was a little unlucky.
By analogy with Federico, comrade W looked good at the last frontier, but he did not make the top three by an insufficiently fast adaptation of Lemons for the 5v5 format, which is why the team itself did not finish the tourney very high. But we cannot fail to mention W, who has reached 44% of saves, most of which were in difficult situations.
Best Defender
- 1st place – oree (The Oscars);
- 2nd place – Jobson (Ice Creamers);
- 3-4th places – Wolk, Torres (both – Unity).
It would seem that the winning line-up is not changed usually, but The Oscars held the first tourney of the season, the Champions Cup, with a brand new transfer - VipeR. And oree, after the third place in the nomination at the end of the Winter Open, remained to rest as a substitute, but this did not break him at all. After Panda departure before the tournament, Oscars had to rebuild their roster, and oree was right there. In 11 games, he managed to earn 62 points on the tackles + interceptions system and added 70% of accurate passes to all this, which is 14% above the average. The winner of this nomination was determined by the results of the decisive game, where Vladimir showed the best performance for a defender in the last few tournaments. Congratulations to oree with gold and wish him not to slow down!
Jobson was slightly inferior to its competitor in all statistical indicators – perhaps this is due to the fact that Dima played one of the games at the goal. But, in any case, he kept a high level throughout the tournament and took his team to second place. What else is needed? Congratulations to Jobson on his second consecutive silver in this nomination and at the end of the next tournament we expect him with gold!
Wolk and Torres had a fairly smooth tournament, scoring 96 points for two according to the tackles + interceptions system. One of them shoot more, the other one was more responsible for the development of attacks, but all this was enough only for 3-4th places. Perhaps, again, the slow adaptation of the players of the Unity-Alliance system to the 5v5 format affected; perhaps it just was not the best tournament. In any case, defensively, both players equally influenced the success (and not so much success) of the team, thanks to which the commission determined them together. Congratulations on their bronze medals, and wish them to be a little higher in the next tournaments!
Worth mentioning: Gudlevskis (Lemons).
Once again, Gudlevskis appears in this article. Somewhere there is not enough result, somewhere he played too few games, but, nevertheless, Gud shows a stable game for two tourneys in a row. It seems that he will claim the podium next time.
Best All-round
- 1st place – vaiber (The Oscars);
- 2nd place – Ricky (Ice Creamers);
- 3-4th places – CAH4E3 (The Oscars), Lilipotto (Ice Creamers).
After silver in this nomination, vaiber (aka VipeR) showed a level even higher than at the last tournament, and deservedly takes gold. Second in rating, second in points, second in the number of created chances, and he also added a bunch of interceptions with tackles. What else is needed for an all-round player? We congratulate Oleg with gold and wish him to keep the same high level!
Until the very end, Ricky tried to impose competition on Oleg, but in a sense, the failed game against The Oscars did not allow him to fight for gold. In any case, decent performance throughout the tournament, as well as a high rating, allowed Vlad to climb into second place, with which we congratulate him!
CAH4E3 spent a lot of time trying to join the starting lineup of The Oscars, losing the competition somewhere. After ryan's unexpected leaving, Alexander had a great chance to show himself, which he took advantage of. CAH4E3 did not have a lot of work to do during the entire tourney, but in the decisive game against IC, his role was crucial.
Lilipotto, by analogy with CAH4E3, did not particularly influence the team's results during the tournament – Oscars and IC outperformed their competitors too much. But Stanislav's contribution to the game had to help him getting on the podium, even though the player could not take part in the decisive clash.
Congratulations to the guys on the bronze medal and wish to keep the bar as high, because this is a truly difficult and important role.
Worth mentioning: Zaripov#25, MoNsTeR (both – Unity), puzikjan, Nekrvrn and Dr.Pivo (all – The Bandits).
Each of these skaters showed a consistently good game, but at key moments they failed to show their best qualities and pull their teams to a higher level. We expect brighter performances from the boys already at the Autumn Open.
Best Forward
Apparently, niko was not satisfied that someone other than him might end up with gold in this nomination. Therefore, he decided to return to the attacking lines of The Oscars and show who is really the best striker here. Having achieved 63% of the realization of shots, a record high dribbling success rate of 87% and 87 points in 12 full games, Nikita takes the gold with a huge margin. Congratulations and wish him to keep the level further!
Panda, after many years and two victorious tournaments at The Oscars, decided to change the team, but this did not overshadow his talent for scoring goals. Mark was able to convert 46% of his shots, scoring 33 goals (only niko and 72snake had more), which earned him another silver in the Best Forward nomination. We wish Panda to get the long-awaited gold next time!
Due to the fact that the Nordics missed this tournament, Dkato was taken under their wing by the Ice Creamers. Daniil became the main scoring force of his team, but something was still not enough for him to climb higher than third place. Congratulations to Dkato on the bronze and wish to rise higher in the next tournaments!
Worth mentioning: 72snake, Jeydon, AndrewGaze (all – Lemons), 3SQA (Unity).
72snake didn't even make it to the podium after the gold in the previous tournament. Complain about the format, or something that was just unlucky? Who knows; in any case, each of the Lemons players represented here fought on the court to the last, but fate decided to hinder their ambitions a little.
3SQA, surrounded by his comrades from Alliance, switched to the role of a pure striker. This allowed him to be on an equal footing in the number of goals scored with his partners in attack creation, and also led them to third place in the tournament.
Best Player of the Tournament
The first two places were shared by a couple of The Oscars players, whom no one could resist at this tournament. For niko, this is another gold in this category, but vaiber, after bronze at the previous tournament, showed strong progress in his game and ended up in second place. The two performed especially impressively in the decisive games against IC, gaining 28 points in total. Congratulations to the duo of Oscars players for winning the tournament and tied for the two highest places in the most significant category!
Oree kept up with his teammates, and in the end, 3 out of 5 Oscars players managed to climb the podium.
But Ricky is not far away either. It should be noted Vlad's individual level and his influence on the team's game.
We congratulate the bronze winners, wish Ricky to play the next tourney even better, and wish oree with a previous couple keep the same high level further!
Jobson did a great job of being in charge of his team's defensive ranks throughout the tournament, while he also managed to score sometimes.
Panda showed high performance, and in general was the main weapon of Bandits in the fight for high places.
Lilipotto was more involved in dirty work than scoring goals, but the importance of his role in the team cannot be underestimated.
CAH4E3 has nicely shown himself to be a player who will fight for any puck, and take it more often than fail.
Howl, DeadMouse and Marci defended their teams' gates perfectly, but the goalkeeper's position was slightly depreciated in the transition to the 5v5 format.
Dkato and 72snake showed good performance during the tournament, but in the most important games they got a little lost on the ice.
That’s all folks! This is how we remember EHL Season 2 Rapid League, the first 5v5 tournament in the history of our championships. The teams are already in full swing preparing for the final competition of the season – Autumn Open, which starts on October 1st. Let's go get ready too.
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